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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "20 craven park, harlesden"
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447011148836 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • microsoft_awardpromo147@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Saut Stephen Nainngolan <microsoft_awardpromo147@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:51:19 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: {Disarmed} LOTTERY PAYMENT RELEASE ORDER FORM


Microsoft Award Team
20 Craven Park, Harlesden London NW10 United Kingdom
Ref: BTD/968/05
Batch: 409978E
11TH OF DECEMBER 2006

LOTTERY PAYMENT RELEASE ORDER FORM

Attn Karli Hochmacher:

I am Mr. Saut Stephen Nainngolan, the Payment Officer assigned to your case to help you in the claims process of your funds. I wish to congratulate you and to say you are a lucky person to have won lump sum of £2,500,000.00 (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Only).

All the winners in the Lottery were selected randomly through a computer ballot system from Email addresses and Names from the World Wide Web.

This yearly promotional program is aimed at encouraging internet users while promoting their products thereof. This program is largely sponsored by Microsoft and Aol and other philanthropist in our society.

It is a rare opportunity for beneficiaries of this program considering the fact that the lottery is based on email addresses. These email addresses where generated through a special software on the principle of chance.

We congratulate you once more. Moreover, to start the processing of your award claim, you are required to fill out the claims form and send back to our office for thorough scrutiny and verifications to avoid the program being hijacked by fraudulent people.

We are determined to ensure nobody is robbed of his or her claims.

However,as we would want to protect the interest of winners in this program, we will work within the confines of the regulations of the gaming authorities in the Netherlands and within the European Union (E.U ) since your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe.

As part of our resolve to protect the interest of winners, your won prize has been insured to its real value. So you are to get your winning sum in your designated account. You will be informed of the next step once we certify you are the owner of the email address that won in the draws.

You are also required to choose the mode which you want to collect your funds:

Note you are requested to send to this office your international passport or driver licence for identification.

Congratulations once again from all members of our staff of Microsoft Award Team Pomotion, and thank you for being part of our promotions program.

As soon as you receive this email you are to call me for confermation.

We await your response.

Payment officer.
Mr.Saut stephen Nainngolan
Tel +44 701 1148 836
Fax:44-871-247-2512
Email: microsoft_awardpromo147@yahoo.co.uk



LOTTERY AWARD CLAIMS FORM
Completely fill out the Lottery Award Claim Form - provided herein and submit a completed filled form via email or
fax for the Processing and approval of your winnings.



[FULL NAME OF WINNER] [input]
[RESIDENT ADDRESS]


[NATIONALITY] [input] [STATE] [input]

[DATE OF BIRTH] [input] [input] [input] [SEX] [input] M [input] F

[MARITAL STATUS] [input] [OCCUPATION] [input]


[CURRENT EMAIL] [input] [TELEPHONE NR] [input]

[NEXT OF KIN] [input]

[FULL ADDRESS]

######################################################################################################
WINNING INFORMATION FOR LOTTERY CLAIMS
######################################################################################################

[REF NUMBER] [input]
[BATCH NUMBER] [input]
[TICKET NUMBER] [input]

Mode of Payment: BANK DRAFT/CHEQUE [input] WIRE TRANSFER [input] CASH [input]

CLAIMANT SIGNATORY DECLARATION

I ............................................................. Declare as the lotto prize winner that all information I have provided for my winning claims are true and correct information of myself. I agree with the instructions in line with the processing and transfer of my Lottery Award Prize to my designated Bank Account.



Claimant Signature


Date: [input]

Copyright (C) 2005 Microsoft Award Team






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